Geographies

Companies listed in alphabetical order by state.
	Zynga San Francisco, CA Zynga is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
	Quartics Irvine, California Quartics leverages breakthrough semiconductor architectural advantages to provide dominant media processing and media extension solutions for the computer and display markets. The company's semiconductors enable the flawless transmission of video and audio for wireless PC to TV, monitors, and projectors; PC tuner cards, docking stations, HD-networked PVRs, and video conferencing.
	Amalfi Semiconductor Los Gatos, California Amalfi Semiconductor is a fabless developer of value-added RF devices for the mobile communications industry.
	ZeaChem Menlo Park, California ZeaChem, Inc. is developing a cellulose-based biorefinery platform producing either ethanol or a broad portfolio of other chemicals. ZeaChem's innovative process was designed for high yield. The company is pioneering biorefinery technology using combinations of biochemical and thermochemical processing steps.
	Solar Power Partners Mill Valley, California Solar Power Partners, Inc. (SPP™) is a developer, owner, and manager (DOM) of a distributed network of mid-size commercial Solar Energy Facilities (SEF) that is remotely managed from a central location. SPP™ provides an innovative turn-key performance based service (PBS™) that bundles development of SEF, financing through a Power Purchase Agreement, and on-going operations tailored to meet building owner's specific needs.
	Sonics Mountain View, California Sonics develops a communication subsystem that integrates data and controls traffic on a single chip.
	MarketLive, Inc. Petaluma, California MarketLive, Inc. is the leading provider of e-commerce retail technology and services for selling online. The MarketLive® platform is an enterprise-class retail e-commerce solution specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and brand manufacturers.
	Steelwedge, Inc. Pleasanton, California Steelwedge, Inc. is an innovative developer of Enterprise Forecast Optimization software solutions that enable companies to dramatically increase margins and revenue predictability by streamlining complex demand forecasting processes.
	Nominum Redwood City, California Nominum is a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure software for enterprises that require reliable and secure DNS, DHCP and IP address management for their mission critical networks.
	StrongMail Redwood Shores, California StrongMail provides high-performance email delivery servers for marketing and transactional email that are optimized high-deliverability.
	Luidia, Inc. San Carlos, California Luidia Inc. develops technologies and products that simplify, improve, and enhance human-computer interactions. Luidia's award-winning eBeam technology is applicable to a wide variety of markets, from large format information display to small mobile devices. The highly embeddable technology enables intuitive 2D and 3D interaction with visual data as part of OEM products or as a stand alone system.
	Amobee San Francisco, California Amobee delivers a unified, telco-grade system for funding mobile content and communications through advertising revenues. The company provides the only media system capable of dynamically inserting targeted, interactive advertisements into all types of mobile entertainment and communication channels, including videos, music, messaging, games, WAP etc., using a single, telco-grade ad-serving infrastructure.
	Linden Lab San Francisco, California Linden Lab is a privately held company established to develop an extraordinary new form of shared 3D entertainment. Through its first product, "Second Life," Linden Lab offers a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended entertainment experience, where together people create and inhabit a virtual world of their own design.
	Palo Alto Networks San Jose, California Palo Alto Networks™ enables visibility and policy control of applications running on enterprise networks. Based on innovative App-ID™ application classification technology, the Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 Series is a next-generation firewall that accurately identifies applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or even SSL encryption – at 10Gbps with no performance degradation.
	Analogix Santa Clara, California Analogix is a provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for the backplane interconnect, Long Reach Ethernet, and HDMI markets.
	Provigent Santa Clara, California Provigent develops and markets integrated silicon solutions for the broadband wireless industry. Provigent’s cost-effective "system-on-a-chip” (SOC) products enable wireless system vendors to deliver high-performance broadband wireless systems to network operators. Focusing on wireless backhaul and access systems, Provigent SOC solutions offer an unparalleled combination of increased bandwidth, extended range and enhanced flexibility with lower system costs.
	CaliSolar Sunnyvale, California CaliSolar aims to refine cheap dirty silicon in order to help produce photovoltaics (PV) or solar cells, which are silicon semiconductor devices that convert sunlight into direct current electricity.
	oDesk Sunnyvale, California oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology service providers from around the world. Buyers choose oDesk for top global talent, comprehensive management tools, and a flexible hourly payment model. Service Providers choose oDesk for challenging jobs and guaranteed payment.
	Ampulse Golden, Colorado Ampulse Corporation is developing low-cost, high efficiency crystalline-silicon (c-Si) thin-film photovoltaic modules on flexible substrates.
	OpenSpan Alpharetta, Georgia Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, service-enable legacy systems, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. OpenSpan received the 2008 SIIA CODiE Award for Software Newcomer of the Year, the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine and the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.
	Wirefree Partners Atlanta, Georgia Wirefree Partners is a PCS wireless spectrum lessor and and service provider in 16 US markets.
	Coskata Warrenville, Illinois Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol for under US$1.00 per gallon anywhere in the world, from almost any input material (feedstock).
	SMS GupShup Mumbai, India SMS GupShup is the world’s largest social SMS service that allows users to communicate and connect with family, friends and fans using mobile handsets. SMS GupShup extends the capabilities of p2p sms technology to social messaging including 1-to-many, many-to-many and many-to-1 communication, thereby enabling social interactions on sms, the only medium that reaches 4 billion users worldwide. Launched in April 2007, it is used by 26 million users in over 2 million communities.
	SundaySky Tel Aviv, Israel SundaySky developes video solutions which enables publishers to quickly, easily and cost effectively infuse their website with video. The SundaySky DynamicVideo™ platform extracts the content from any website and molds it into high-quality professional video clips. The clips are generated on the fly, and remain current with the ever changing content of the website while providing online publishers a new avenue of revenue and helping them to better capitalize on their content.
	Solar Silicon Technology (SST) Chiba, Japan Solar Silicon Technology is a leading manufacturer of innovative crystalline silicon for Solar cells. Tremendous demand of Photovoltic cell in the world has caused the higher prices of solar grade silicon. SST's Zinc-Mediated reduction method makes low purity metallurgical silicon into Solar Grade Silicon with lower cost.
	Shimei Semiconductor Kyoto, Japan Shimei Semiconductor is developing disruptive technology that allows LED chips to be on silicon substrate without Gallium depositions. The silicon crystal substrate LED has technical and economical advantages over the existing sapphire substrate LED, which currently dominates the market.
	Nurien Seoul , Korea Nurien is a developer of a new form of 3D social media.
	Blackwave Acton, Massachusetts Blackwave Inc. (formerly Acinion) provides cost effective systems for storing and delivering Internet Video – providing industry leading performance and scalability designed to meet the growing needs of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), Aggregators, and Media and Entertainment companies.
	Dotomi Boston, Massachusetts Dotomi™ creates a direct relationship between marketers and consumers by opening a one-to-one messaging channel through banner ad real-estate. Dotomi is 100% privacy compliant to enable consumers to rule over the messages they receive from their favorite marketers.
	Optaros Boston, Massachusetts Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software.
	Certeon Burlington, Massachusetts Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the industries' first and only virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, virtualization and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera software reduces application response time over the WAN by more than 95% - accelerating more applications, to more users, for less cost.
	expressor software Corporation Burlington, Massachusetts Founded in 2003, expressor software develops next-generation data integration software for the global 2000.
	Zipcar Cambridge, Massachusetts An internet based service that lets members reserve and access a variety of cars without the cost of ownership. Today, Zipcar has more than 80,000 consumers and 2,500 cars in London and 13 North American states and provinces including Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Toronto and Washington D.C. areas, with plans to expand.
	GlassHouse Framingham, Massachusetts A pioneer in the storage services sector, GlassHouse Technologies distinguishes itself by providing solutions from strategy to operations. GlassHouse offers guaranteed services focused on technology and organizational effectiveness.
	Akorri Littleton, Massachusetts Akorri products help IT Departments more optimally manage their information, control infrastructure costs, and improve application performance thereby increasing the value of their information assets. As data centers scale to utility/grid storage architecture, Akorri enables them to optimally manage their information.
	OpenPages Waltham, Massachusetts Founded in 1996, OpenPages develops enterprise governance, risk and compliance management solutions that streamline knowledge-intensive processes to improve corporate accountability, reduce disclosure process cost, enhance internal controls management productivity, and increase investor confidence. The company's portfolio of solutions includes Sarbanes-Oxley Express (SOX Express), the market-leading enterprise application for automating the corporate financial reporting and disclosure compliance requirements of Sections 404 and 302 of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
	Q1 Labs Waltham, Massachusetts Q1 Labs provides organizations with the surveillance, analysis and control technology needed to eliminate external threats and internal policy enforcement risks. Q1 Labs' innovative product, QRadar , features intelligent, behavior-based, real-time analysis that recognizes and isolates the source of threats and anomalous behavior caused by security breaches or unacceptable internal activity.
	Nantero Woburn, Massachusetts Nantero is a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero’s main focus is the development of NRAM™ –a high-density nonvolatile random access storage device. NRAM™ will replace all existing forms of storage, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory, with a high-density nonvolatile RAM – ‘universal memory.’
	Hatteras Networks Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Hatteras Networks offers carrier solutions to extend the Ethernet Service Edge for Mid-Band Ethernet services to businesses, mobile wireless cell sites and remote DSLAMs that are not served with fiber.
	5min New York, NY 5min is the leading syndication platform for lifestyle, knowledge and instructional videos, reaching over 200 million monthly unique visitors. As a destination site, 5min.com is the top "how-to" video site with more than 3.5 million unique visitors each month. 5min's library features short-form videos from some of the world's largest media companies as well as the most innovative independent producers. Video recipes, yoga and fitness routines, tech tutorials, DIY projects for home and garden, health videos on specific conditions, beauty and fashion tips, video game walk-throughs and much more. Go to http://solutions.5min.com for more information.
	Think3 Cincinatti, Ohio Think3 develops powerful, affordable, and easy-to-learn 3D design software. (formerly Cad. Lab)
	Strata8 Bellevue, Washington Strata8 Networks provides integrated cell phone and office phone services along with industry specific business applications. Services provide business customers web-based management control, simplified billing, quality customer service, cost savings and ease of use. Basic wireless applications (i.e. email, contacts, calendar, etc.) and advanced wireless applications (applications specific to vertical markets) are easily integrated in our open platform environment.